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  1. If you’re expecting a call put on your wireless headset because this won’t work without one. Now travel to the bathroom and commence, the phone will ring. If you want it to be the call you wanted then stop mid stream.

  2. If you need to know how the sound quality of your calls are, get on a conference call. See if your co-workers or clients can hear the animals/kids that just started screaming in the background.

  3. If you’re trying to test your internet connection, have one of your executives put in a critical helpdesk ticket. Your internet will go down, but your cell phone won’t.

  4. Need to test perimeter security on your network? Setup everything at the datacenter and drive an hour home. You’ll find you’ve left that one port closed you needed open to connect.

  5. Lastly if you’re having a tough day and need a self esteem boost just wait until 5:30, you’re spouse will ask what you’ve been doing all day since the clothes still aren’t folded and put up.

Just some humor for HUMP DAY!

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Unfortunately, it’s all so very true…

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And here I was hoping for actual tips…

Funny though, and incredibly relevant.

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Thanks for that, very funny and true.

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Don’t knock it. I would KILL to be able to work from home. I know if has it’s drawbacks, but I miss my kids like crazy when I’m at work and they will only be little and home for a few more years.

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lol I’ve run in to a few of these. Working from home is great, but some days… I would have rather been in the office when all h*ll broke loose.

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The grass is always greener… I have had my own company since 96/97 ish… (not always home based)… The last year before I started at this position, I was working from home for a solid year…I think I wore through 3 robes…

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  1. If you feel like you’ve had a long day, don’t worry. When you finally stand up at 4:30 in the afternoon and realize you haven’t eaten lunch, taken anything out to thaw for dinner, missed all of the dog’s cues that he needed to go out, and left your breakfast bagel on the counter (which the dog has now graciously taken for himself), you’ll be happy that it’s almost over now. Once you get off the phone with that call that will inevitably come in at 4:55.
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Revised to suit reality…

At least most of my clients don’t phone me, they just IM or email me.

/grin

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Nothing says professional like answering the door for whoever is delivering your computer parts in your robe… Glad I’m through that phase.

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  1. Understand that you will be delusional from time to time. When you think it’s still mid-afternoon, the reality is that your kids went to bed an hour ago, the dinner your wife cooked for everyone was already put away, and the dog is really pissed at you now.
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ewww @ computer parts… I gave up selling hardware long LONG before that lol.

There’s no money in hardware and warranty is a PITA. Service is where the cash is :slight_smile:

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I know when I had my retail store front… I was in my second year of operations before I realized … “Hey… I can go for lunch FFS, I’m the owner!”

A lot of 16 hour days in the beginning. Then I got smart and got free slave-labour… errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr work-experience students from the local high school…

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A robe, huh? I may have to try that. Although I see clothes being in the way when you’re sitting in a bean-bag chair eating Cheetos. Think it will keep UPS and FedEx from running away from the door? I figured they were just in a rush.

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When home, I’m almost always wearing a robe… even when fully dressed beneath. They are a staple Christmas present in my house lol.

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If you make the fatal mistake in an 9-5, M-F environment of telling people “yeah, IT isn’t a 9-5 job”, don’t be surprised when you get calls before 9, after 5 and on Sa and Su.

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Generally I do manage to limit most of my work to 9-5. However sometimes its difficult to enforce that limit, especially when you start adding your own upgrade training into the mix, and new roll-outs of mission critical IT infrastructure. Its also sometimes difficult to say IT is a 9-5 job when you need to upgrade, reboot, fix servers etc. that people are working on 9-5…

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Oh, you have no idea. I know several professional graphic artists. Putting on a robe is getting dressed up…

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one day in one critical remote work I lost my internet at home. I used my 3g blackberry connection hotspot for dealing with the issue but speed was a nightmare. now I have 2 internet from different ISPs with a load balance router (cheap 60 investment). I’m happy now with internet redundancy at home.

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Nice observations.